Last year, Luke Bryan hung up his flip-flops and said "adios" to Spring Break, the annual bacchanalia that the stadium-filling country singer had called home for a smattering of EPs. With his new song, he's out to show that he's become a "Southern Gentleman," one who shows proper respect to the people around him—and who treats his love with delicacy and awe, taking sunset walks and enjoying the simple pleasures of a porch swing's gentle sway.

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What's most notable about the lyric video for "Southern Gentleman," which features a generation-spanning parade of southern gentlemen, is the spectrum of style on display. Lived-in seersucker blazers, jeans where every shredded thread has its own tale, dapper suits, well-worn leather boots—they're all part of the South's fashion story, blending ruggedness with class and grace.

"Southern Gentleman" appears on Bryan's just-released EPFarm Tour, which is celebrating his eighth annual tour of farms around the United States. Beginning at Culler Farms in Gaston, S.C. on October 5, Bryan's Farm Tour will allow the singer to entertain slightly more intimate audiences—his October 13 show in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, is expected to attract 20,000 people, a fraction of the capacity held by the football stadiums he's headlined on his Kill The Lights Tour—and show off his Southern gentleman bona fides.

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